Herding Cats

The current Earned Value concepts are described in a set of new papers: Project Duration Forecasting: Comparing Earned Value Management Methods with Earned Schedule, Walter Lipke The Two Mist Usefu...

I'm updating a PPT for a briefing next week on what we do when we're doing Program Controls. Here's a short summary:    During Program Execution insight is provided into the contractors performance...

Hal Macomber just submitted a post titled "The Future of Project Controls - Five Years Later." In this post Hal states."The future of project controls is to place the
responsibility for gauging wh...

The NAVAIR (Naval Aviation) Earned Value Management handbook has an interesting table showing project success and failure modes. (This link will ask for a confirmation of the certificate).     Thes...

Through a series of posts I came across an interesting site. www.typealyzer.com which will tell you what Meyers Briggs type you are from reading your blog.    Well guess what, I'm INTJ.The long-ran...

David Schmaltz provides a look at the application of Earned Value to projects. Several common mistakes are made in this post, possibly from lack of experience on programs subject to 748B or possibl...

The topic of CMMI and Agile has come up again with a Technical Note from SEI on how CMMI and Agile might be somehow connected. This is one of those "must read" papers. But not necessarily for the r...

    The use of Earned Value in construction, government, and defense programs is common practice. Some SOX IT organizations have discovered the benefits of EV. But using the EV variables - Cost Var...

Dennis Stevens made a recent comment that brings up the old topic of the term "agile" in the same sentence as Project Management - PMBOK still. The 4th Edition of PMBOK is on it way, so we'll have ...

The art of estimating the cost and schedule aspects of a project a fraught with problems. The primary issue is the belief that estimates are either credible or completely worthless. Both extremes a...